Tragic America
by DREISER, THEODORE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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About This Item
Constable & Co. 1932. First edition, Octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper edges stained orange, 412pp, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light fading, heavy bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light soiling)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 245405
- Title
- Tragic America
- Author
- DREISER, THEODORE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable & Co. 1932
- Keywords
- United States Politics government sociology economics history
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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